RAISE-4 & Others

Liftoff Time

No Earlier Than 2026

Mission Details

RAISE-4

RAISE-4 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-4) is a satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 15 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments. 10 of the demonstrations are re-flight of those planned for RAISE-3, which failed to reach orbit in October 2022.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

Rocket

Planned
Epsilon S
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Agency

JAXA

Rocket

Height: 27m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 1,400 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

1,612 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 2.5m

Height: 9.19m

Stages

4

Launch Site

Mu Pad

Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

Fastest Turnaround

143 days 23 hours